====== Anathema ======

//"Bloody great tower it is, right at the top of the mountain!  Not a clue what they're doin' there, but all you hear is chanting, day in, day out, and there always seems to be a storm there.  Ferdinand says 'e saw the lightning flash different colours last night, but 'e'd been hitting the sauce pretty hard, so that might just be 'im seein' things."//

A concerned resident near the Eldritch Research Institute

//"Binding research is proceeding apace - we have now refined several of the old glyphs and discovered some new principles behind their function.  Our goal of a quickly deployable emergency binding is looking closer by the day, and we should be able to issue it to Hunters within the year"//

//"Detection is also proceeding well, after our previous breakthroughs last year.  We can now pinpoint the location of any Category 5 event when the summoning happens, and should be able to detect anything larger than a Category 8 while the ritual is still ongoing.  At this point, we are ready to roll out to detection stations across the globe."//

//"Trans-dimensional research has taken somewhat of a toll after the loss of Research Station Zeta, but that should serve as a lesson in caution and ensuring all proper safety procedures are in place, so that we do not need to wipe another Station off the map to prevent an incursion."//

//"Our Director, Arkady Zarovich, will be paying us a visit next week, so please ensure that all research is ready for presentation."//

Proceedings of the Eldritch Research Institute

//"Merlin (AKA Anathema, AKA Arkady Zarovich, allegedly Sable and World Eater) is allegedly responsible for the reduced hostility between the separatists and SPEAR - acting on both sides of the divide, as well as for the Knights of the Round Table, he steered the separatists onto a path of stopping corruption and exploitation, rather than simply dismantling any large organisation they could find.  The SPEAR side of the equation were harder to persuade - Alecto maintained her hardline anti-separatist stance until her tragic death helping to prevent a demon incursion in 2078."//

Extract from "SPEAR - A History", by John Mors